Barca Blaugranes · Mar 2, 2021
Semedo says Messi doesn’t practice free-kicks at Barcelona
Photo by Michael Regan - UEFA/UEFA via Getty ImagesThis might be one of my favorite bits in a while. In an interview with the Telegraph, former Barcelona defender Nelson Semedo said that Lionel Messi didn’t practice free-kicks in training. Semedo plays for Wolves in England now but got an up-close view of Messi in his time at Barca.
“Wow. I really don’t have many words that can describe how good he is.
“You know what makes him even more amazing? I never once saw him take a free-kick in training, in all of the time I was there. I swear he never did!
“We always used to practice shooting from distance but Messi never took a free-kick. For him, it was just natural.